Mid-Day Mistress
Mid-Day Mistress

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Mid-Day Mistress

1968
Movie
74 min
English

Lauri Blaine, a beautiful young girl in New York City's Greenwich Village gets mixed up with hippies, drug dealers, Eurotrash models and Mafia assassins when her boyfriend upsets a Mafia hood by giving away free marijuana, cutting into the gangster's drug sales.

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IMDb5.7/10
Director: Claude PiersonGenres: Drama, Erotic

Plot Summary

A young woman, struggling with her life, finds herself drawn into a world of infidelity and complex relationships. As she navigates these new dynamics, she encounters both pleasure and peril. The film explores themes of desire, societal expectations, and the consequences of choices made in the pursuit of happiness.

Critical Reception

Mid-Day Mistress received mixed to negative reviews, largely due to its explicit content for the time and its melodramatic plot. It is often categorized as an exploitation film from the late 1960s, appealing more to niche audiences interested in erotic dramas than mainstream critics.

What Reviewers Say

  • Criticized for its predictable and often gratuitous plot.

  • Noted for its overt eroticism which was considered daring for its era.

  • Seen as a product of its time, reflecting certain cinematic trends in European erotic cinema.

Google audience: Audience reception is scarce and largely unavailable, but the film is generally considered a niche erotic drama with little mainstream appeal.

Fun Fact

The film was part of a wave of European erotic dramas that gained some traction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, often characterized by their suggestive themes and candid portrayals of sexuality.

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